Ensure SLM stats does not block an in-place upgrade from 7.4 #48361
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7.5+ for SLM requires [stats] object to exist in the cluster state.
When doing an in-place upgrade from 7.4 to 7.5+ [stats] does not exist
in cluster state, result in an exception on startup [1].
This commit moves the [stats] to be an optional object in the parser
and if not found will default to an empty stats object.
[1] Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Required [stats]
Note - this is was not caught by normal full cluster state restart tests since by default there is no SLM data in cluster state. Stopping and restarting ILM is one way to force SLM cluster state to be written (hence the custom test)
Note - this does not need to merged to master/8.0, however, we may need a follow up PR in 7.x to ensure that SLM is eagerly written to cluster state.
Below is the full error when the test is run without the fix: